Jean's Teddy Bears by Jean Greenhowe

Jean's Teddy Bears

Knitting
January 1992
DK (11 wpi) ?
26 stitches = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
Standing Teddy - 31cm (12¼in); Seated Teddy - 21.5cm (8½in) from the base of the body to the top of the head
English

Description from designer’s website:
Jean’s Teddy Bears have been designed to look like the teddies from days gone by. The arms and legs are sewn into place yet they have an old-fashioned jointed appearance. But although the teddies are traditional in appearance the design itself is ingenious because each individual part of the teddy - head, body, arm, leg, is knitted in one piece.

Patterns for knitted teddies used to be designed in the same way as fur fabric bears, with awkward gussets and many separate flat pieces. Or they were made like dolls, with a separately knitted snout piece sewn into the face. But with Jean’s bears the three dimensional shaping is knitted-in because the increases and decreases are worked at intervals along the rows, not at the edges of the pieces as was usual in the past. There are no ‘flat’ pieces or gussets in Jean’s Teddies and this is what gives her bears the unique three-dimensional look. This is a complete innovation - never achieved before which took Jean several months to perfect.

Yarn requirements: 70g(2.5oz) of yellow or light yellow for the teddy pieces; oddments of pink or blue for the bow; oddment of black for the nose and eyes.

Yarn required for facial stitches: Dark brown for the eyes; pink for the mouth and a lighter shade of pink for the nose.

Stuffing requirements: 200g(7.5oz) for each bear

Pattern lists needle size as: 3mm(No. 11, USA 2)